School: Baile Lochnáin
- Location:
- Riverstown, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Domhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0531, Page 176
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“In olden times when doctors were scarce and it cost people a good sum of money to be cured...”
In olden times when doctors were scarce and it cost people a good sum of money to be cured people found remedies of their own from simple ways. Even today these remedies are tried by people with good results. The most observed of these are:-
To burn paper and inhale the smoke for a toothache and to drink cold water. Also if you meet a man or a white horse and ask him a cure for a toothache whatever he says will cure it.The remedies for thrush are honey and borax.For a stye. If you put a gold wedding ring to it, or the thorn of a gooseberry(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Treasa Ní Gealbháin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Riverstown, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Michael Galvin
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 58